Small Group Planning at the Elim Church, Pt 1

Mario Vega, www.elim.org.sv Unlike many churches who transition gradually to small group ministry, we changed rather abruptly. We became completely convinced of cell based ministry after visiting David Cho’s church in Seoul, South Korea in 1986. We asked everyone to...

Cell Renewal

Mario Vega, www.elim.org.sv Although the human body is more or less permanent, it is also  constantly changing. Old cells s are discarded and new ones are formed. The cells lining the stomach only last for three days. Red blood cells, battered after the nearly 995...

Reach Out

Mario Vega, www.elim.org.sv Jesus left his church on earth to share the good news of the gospel. The church’s responsibility is to be light and salt in a world without hope. The church should not live for herself but for the mission entrusted to her. It is not here to...

Evangelism Now and Then

By Mario Vega, www.elim.org.sv The well-known passage from Acts 2:44-47 ends by stating that each day the Lord added new people to the church. The increase of new believers was not the result of some aggressive effort made by the early believers to reach out to...

The Leaders and the Grace of God

By Mario Vega, www.elim.org.sv In the kingdom of God things are upside down. The strong are called weak and the weak are strong. As Paul explains: “But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the...